Acılı Ezme (Spicy Turkish Tomato and Pepper Salad)
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Published 2023-06-22
Full written recipe: www.linsfood.com/turkish-acili-ezme/
Acılı Ezme is a very traditional and spicy (or not) Turkish salad with tomatoes, peppers and parsley. It is perfect on any mezze or tapa table.
Acılı = spicy (pronounced A – ji – li, emphasis on the first syllable)
Ezme = crushed (pronounced Ez – may)
This is a word that describes many other recipes that are made up of finely chopped ingredients.
The term Acılı Ezme refers to this dish of finely chopped up vegetables and herbs with a tangy, slightly minty and spicy dressing. Ezme (not spicy) is found everywhere in Turkey and you’d be hard pressed not to notice it, however short your visit is!
How to Serve Ezme
You can serve Turkish ezme salad pretty much as you please:
* as a main or side salad
* as a cold starter (appetiser) with some fresh bread (Turkish pide, pita bread, baguette, Italian bread, it’s all good)
* it makes a delicious accompaniment to grilled and barbecued food, whether kebabs, chicken or seafood
* it's perfect on the mezze or tapa table
Can also be done in a food chopper. Explanations of ingredients on the blog.
INGREDIENTS
200 g (7 oz) ripe tomatoes
1 medium red onion (about 150g/5 oz pre peeled weight)
2 long mild green Turkish chillies or ½ green bell pepper
2 long mild red Turkish peppers or Romano peppers or 1 red bell pepper
3 red jalapeño or any similar sized medium chilli
1 handful flat leaf parsley (about 30g/1 oz)
Dressing
2 Tbsp EV olive oil
1 Tbsp pomegranate molasses
2 Tbsp hot Turkish pepper paste OR 1 Tbsp hot red chilli flakes
1 tsp pul biber or chilli powder (cayenne powder in US)
½ tsp sumac omit if unavailable
¼ tsp salt
2-3 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
freshly ground black pepper
0:00 Intro
0:08 Chop the onion
0:15 Chop green Turkish peppers
0:53 Chop red Turkish peppers or Romano peppers
1:33 Chop parsley
1:57 Chop garlic
2:17 Chop tomatoes
2:57 Chop everything up together
4:08 Make the dressing
5:03 Stir the dressing in and dish up
All Comments (5)
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Having a bbq today and made a huge platter of this. Wow, what an amazing salad. It's going to go so well with all the bbq stuff. Thanks Lin and enjoy your Sunday!
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Made this for our garden party yesterday and everybody loved it and wanted the recipe!
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I thought you'd left YouTube a while ago. I've missed some amazing recipes evidently. Great to see you still cooking, Chef Azlin!
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Wow, got to try this!
